This publication is a tool to help educators weave academic content standards, assessments, and school-to-career methods into an integrated and comprehensive educational strategy that prepares all students to meet their future goals. Examples included in the publication were created by Colorado educators to provide a vision of how teachers can…

Land claims settlements, constitutional change, and economic and labor force opportunities reflect the emerging reality of the Northwest Territories and Nunavut. Northern children, youth, and adults need to position themselves to influence and take advantage of the emerging reality. Quality career development education, programs, and services play…

Discusses the misguided emphasis on job placement as a final outcome in supported employment and the need for long-term services and retraining to enable individuals with disabilities to change careers. Proposed alternatives to current job placement strategies that will help foster career development are identified. (CR)

Women are underrepresented in professional positions in mathematics, science, engineering, and technology. Female students need to understand that such careers do not necessarily require college, but they do require mathematics. Non-college-bound females need more information about and preparation for today's technician careers, beginning in…

This paper describes personal and professional networking, discusses data on women and networking skills, and argues that women should exercise these skills in their efforts to shatter the "glass ceiling" and achieve their career potential. An introductory discussion notes that women, though they do network, may develop ties primarily…

This booklet is designed to help high school educators explore using career pathways as a meaningful organizational tool for schools and students. The guide begins with a discussion of career pathways within which students choose or design a career major and the effect of career pathways on schools and students. This discussion covers integration…

A growing number of schools are using community-based learning to apply classroom learning to the real world. In so doing, students acquire the skills to become successful problem solvers and lifelong learners. This guidebook offers a variety of ideas for introducing and using community-based learning in the classroom. The suggestions are designed…

This book presents ten chapters which address the issues and concerns of women who wish to pursue or are pursuing academic careers. Chapters are organized into four parts which address the current status of women in academe, women's roles and career decisions, assuming leadership in higher education, and taking charge and taking care. Included are…

While more new industrial jobs have been created in rural areas than in metropolitan centers in the last two decades, both white and minority rural workers lag behind their urban counterparts in vocational development. Since this rural labor force is composed mainly of the poor who have little schooling, formal skill training, or on-the-job…

This handbook, one of five local handbooks developed to support specialized implementation of the National Career Development Guidelines, presents guidelines for developing comprehensive programs for students in middle and junior high schools. Part I describes the need for guidelines and standards in career development, defines career development…

This guide was developed to aid vocational counselors and job placement coordinators in planning activities for students and potential students of vocational education programs. It contains a vocational guidance model which clarifies what vocational guidance services mean and what local planners should include in their activities. The model shows…

This user's guide provides materials on the Career Motivation and Achievement Planning (C-MAP) Inventory for use with ninth and twelfth grade students. Chapter 1 discusses the purpose and uses of this assessment of long-range career commitment, short-range motivation to achieve on a particular task, and level of education and career aspiration.…

A project was undertaken to develop the curriculum content for a unique career ladder multi-entry/multi-exit nursing program that would provide training for nurse aides, practical nurses, and registered nurses. The major objectives of the project were to conduct a review of the literature on curriculum materials presently in use, to develop 11…

The paper is part of a collection of papers commissioned by Foundations, a development project that focused on the career development needs of deaf college students. The background of the Foundations project at the National Technical Institute for the Deaf (NTID) is reviewed, including NTID admissions criteria and consent considerations. It is…

Houston (TX) schools have developed an innovative attitude toward the teacher shortage; a magnet high school program encourages and prepares students for careers in education. (MD)